Delhi Govt collaborates with IIIT Delhi to set up 'Centre for Sustainable Mobility'
The decision to sign the MoU between the two bodies has been taken to create a Centre for Sustainable Mobility that will aim to create a world-class transport infrastructure in the national capital.
The Delhi Government collaborated with the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi recently. According to the reports, the decision to sign the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two bodies has been taken to create a Centre for Sustainable Mobility that will aim to create a world-class transport infrastructure in the national capital. Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot during a press conference informed that the government has entered into collaboration with IIIT-D to create the centre that has been allocated Rs 6.1 crore via Knowledge Development Foundation.
The minister said, “contactless ticketing in public transport buses was introduced in Delhi for the first time in collaboration with IIIT-D and now daily 70,000 tickets of the total issued tickets are being transacted through contactless mode.” He further added that the centre formed with this collaboration will work towards integrating various advancements initiated by the Transport Department like route rationalisation, open transit data, charging station infrastructure on one platform.
The open-transit data system which facilitates real-time location of DTC, cluster buses and other relevant information will be created in the centre. Startups are welcome to develop innovative applications based on it, he said.
"The Centre will serve as a gateway to aid startups with a number of themes, namely: to spin-off technology related to smart mobility- passenger information systems, multi-modal journey planners, automation tools, ticketing framework among others," he said.
"All of these technological advancements will be integrated into One Delhi app which will be done by the Centre for Sustainable Mobility." The centre will serve as a repository of knowledge of mobility in Delhi, and the faculty and members will regularly produce policy papers and research articles on the issues that Delhi face in sustainable mobility, he added.
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